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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by hingisundhorsa »

Udo wrote: post #244
Udo wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really heartbreaking. By all accounts, that guy had exceptional friends and family who really cared for him. By the looks of it he is/was intelligent, from a reasonably affluent background, well educated, surrounded by incredibly nice and loving people. 99.99% of us would have good reason to be jealous of this background, I certainly am. One can only speculate what insanity drove him to do this.

Update: it looks like that was utterly false information, originally spewed into the ether by Punditpress. I'm really glad it didn't turn out to be this guy. I hope they do find him or he decides to go home again.

This whole thread puts HN to shame. It is a shame on all of us. Horrific. Just horrific. Shame on the people who threw some innocent Brown (yes, the school, not the skin color) kid under the bus, or MIT or whatever other school. The kid is missing and his family gets death threats for something he didn't do. They even had to take down their searching for him page. Shame on all of us for participating in this.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by paganel »

pinaceae wrote: post #239
spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

Can this please be taken down? AP just confirmed the name of the second suspect and it's not one of those above. You're smearing innocents.

I certainly do hope someone is going to take this down. I did downvote it when the post was first made, but it seems like people have gone crazy over there in the States, what with the public naming and blaming of "suspects".

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by flexd »

kellishaver wrote: post #170
a_p wrote: post #147

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The most accurate information may be gleaned from police scanners. News cameras may give you pictures of the amount of police officers at the scene, but they cannot get close enough to give you video of what's actually happening. The irony is that of those three sources of information (Web site, radio, news camera), the best source of "real time" information is the oldest. Yes, it's true that the scanner is being bro…

Maybe it's the fact that I spent my youth growing up around HAM radio and then did several years of EMS dispatching, but I much prefer listening to the scanner than the news. It can be chaotic at times, garbled at others, but if you're used to sorting it out, it's the best way to get accurate information.

There are a lot of people listening. I think perhaps the best way of learning information now is to follow the info posted in #bostonbombing on Freenode, they are live-updating what they hear on the scanners + a lot of other sources.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by hingisundhorsa »

StavrosK wrote: post #223
signed0 wrote: post #209

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They look like different people to me.

They look pretty similar to me.

Really? What kind of hacker are you if you don't think about basic statistics and false positives? Jeez... The readership here has dropped to the level of slime mold. I guess I'm starting to fall into this category myself.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by mattdeboard »

kd0amg wrote: post #197
rexreed wrote: post #188

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Here's a helpful map of the events that happened so far that show the proximity of the various events: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200082141349599835237.0...

The carjacking victim reported that they'd been driving around for about half an hour before he escaped at a gas station. Time's arrow beats proximity.

Occam's razor beats "time's arrow".

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by Udo »

hingisundhorsa wrote: post #251
Udo wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Update: it looks like that was utterly false information, originally spewed into the ether by Punditpress. I'm really glad it didn't turn out to be this guy. I hope they do find him or he decides to go home again.

This whole thread puts HN to shame. It is a shame on all of us. Horrific. Just horrific. Shame on the people who threw some innocent Brown (yes, the school, not the skin color) kid under the bus, or MIT or whatever other school. The kid is missing and his family gets death threats for something he didn't do. They even had to take down their searching for him page. Shame on all of us for participating in this.

It pains me to admit this, but your self-righteous indignation is justified. Like I said, I just hope something positive comes out of this and the increased awareness leads to him being found, or better: him deciding it's time to go home to such an amazing group of people who clearly love him very much.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by StavrosK »

hingisundhorsa wrote: post #254
StavrosK wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They look pretty similar to me.

Really? What kind of hacker are you if you don't think about basic statistics and false positives? Jeez... The readership here has dropped to the level of slime mold. I guess I'm starting to fall into this category myself.

It's a basic statement of fact. They look similar to me. I don't know where statistics come into that in your mind.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by darkarmani »

homosaur wrote: post #11
untog wrote: post #5

Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.

Some crime happens on a college campus probably every day. Most likely hundreds of violent crimes a year. But the reason this is on HN is MIT, nothing more.

Or because it is connected to the terrorist attack on monday...

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by shpxnvz »

ghc wrote: post #56
untog wrote: post #5

Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.

Gun violence is a very uncommon thing in Boston or Cambridge...it's big news here every time it happens. Now outside the city, in the areas where poor people live, it's a different story...but MIT and Harvard are located in some of the wealthiest, safest areas of Cambridge.

Boston has about 60 murders per year. 56% of murders in Massachusetts involve a firearm. Therefore, Boston sees about three murders involving a firearm per month on average.

This does not, of course, include justifiable homicides.

ETA: So as not to scare anyone remember that in major cities typically between 65% and 91% of murder victims are criminals, and most of the killings are gang related.

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